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The Erotics of Looking: Early Modern Netherlandish Art
Angela Vanhaelen (Ed.)
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Description for The Erotics of Looking: Early Modern Netherlandish Art
Paperback. The Erotics of Looking: Early Modern Netherlandish Art presents a collection of provocative essays that explore the material qualities of early Dutch art to reveal ways new forms of visual imagery solicit a beholder s involvement. Editor(s): Vanhaelen, Angela; Wilson, Bronwen. Series: Art History Special Issues. Num Pages: 218 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDN; ACND; ACQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 276 x 13. Weight in Grams: 776.
The Erotics of Looking: Early Modern Netherlandish Art presents a collection of provocative essays that explore the material qualities of early Dutch art to reveal ways new forms of visual imagery solicit a beholder’s involvement.
- Explores how descriptive pictures during the early modern Dutch art period operated as social things and were designed to pleasurably engage the eye and prompt discussion and debate
- Shows how these works potentially raised ethical and political questions about the interconnectedness of engaging with pictures and the material world
- Represents a major contribution to the field of early modern Netherlandish art and to general debates about the status and functions of descriptive art
- Features essays addressing a variety of aspects of the field, from the historiography of Dutch art to closely attentive readings of particular works
- Crafts an original theoretical framework by applying recent insights about the making of early modern publics and the study of material things to the analysis of Netherlandish art
Product Details
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
Number of pages
218
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Art History Special Issues
Condition
New
Weight
775g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781118465257
SKU
V9781118465257
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Ref
99-1
About Angela Vanhaelen (Ed.)
Angela Vanhaelen is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University. Her publications include The Wake of Iconoclasm: Painting the Church in the Dutch Republic (2012). Bronwen Wilson is Professor and Head of World Art Studies and Museology at the University of East Anglia. Her publications include The World in Venice: Print, the City, and Early Modern Identity (2005).
Reviews for The Erotics of Looking: Early Modern Netherlandish Art
“I highly recommend the ground breaking and landmark book The Erotics of Looking: Early Modern Netherlandish Art edited by Angela Vanhaelen, Ph.D., and Bronwen Wilson, Ph.D., to any students of art and art history, academics in the field, art gallery owners and managers, art collectors and dealers, and to anyone interested in the power of the senses and sensuality found in the interaction between artist and viewer. This book will transform the way the artists of the early modern Dutch period approached their vision, their works, and their engagement with the viewer of the paintings.” (Blog Business World, 16 August 2013)